Supporting ECR conference attendance

Since 2015 we have been running an annual competition to provide funds of up to £1000 per applicant for unfunded PhD students and postdocs (within three years of completion) to facilitate their attendance of, and participation in conferences. This was in recognition of the difficulties faced by ECRs in raising the funds required to take part in these events.

We welcome applications from early career scholars around the world, working in disciplines across the social sciences, to facilitate their attendance of, and participation in conferences. Applications are evaluated by a team of reviewers drawn from The Sociological Review editorial board.

The competition is announced in autumn to support conference attendance the following year.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must demonstrate that they plan to give a paper at the conference taking place in the year 2019

Applicants must not be in receipt of other funds such as DTC, University and ESRC scholarships, postdoctoral funding with specific allowance for conference attendance.

Applicants must not be in permanent academic position or in receipt of a full-time wage. However, we will accept applications from ECRs on a teaching only fellowship on a full-time wage with a contract for 12 month or less who are not given access to institutional or research council conference funding.

Postdoctoral applicants must be within three years of the award of their PhD.

You have not received this conference award in previous years.

The funding cannot be split across different conferences.

Applications for conference funding are currently open. Submit your application here. Deadline for applications is Friday 30th November 2018, 17.00 GMT. We cannot accept late applications under any circumstances.

In the first year of the scheme, we received 120 applications and awarded 12 grants in total. Seven went to final stage PhD students – privileging people who had not been in receipt of research council or university funding to support their PhDs – and five to postdocs. The recipients were:

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